A bruised Merz wants to prove he’s a strong leader in first foreign trip as chancellor – POLITICO

Italian MEP Nicola Procaccini, a confidant of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, echoed that sentiment.

“Germany was once considered a pillar of stability,” he told ANSA. “That is no longer the case.”

Roderich Kiesewetter, a lawmaker in Merz’s CDU, argued that Germany must make…

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